ERCOT stakeholders advanced a protocol change that provides longer-duration ancillary services and state-of-charge parameters, among several other voting items, during their last TAC meeting.
ERCOT's blossoming clean energy sector has been threatened by bills that would dampen its growth and future investment, but many of those laws appear to have fallen by the wayside in the Texas legislature's closing days.
CAISO is moving forward with a key initiative to resolve how battery storage resources function on the grid as the battery boom continues in the Golden State.
President Donald Trump’s policies and the growth in demand from data centers and other new customers have changed the trajectory of the power system, speakers said at the Energy Future Forum.
California expects to meet its peak demand this summer under most weather conditions due to thousands of megawatts of new energy resources — almost all battery storage.
The California Energy Commission approved three integrated resource plans for publicly owned utilities as the state prepares the grid to meet peak loads this summer.
PJM selected 51 projects to receive expedited interconnection studies through its Reliability Resource Initiative, adding 11,793 MW of nameplate capacity to the next study cycle.
APS officials said they are looking to a non-coal future for the recently closed Cholla coal-fired power plant, despite President Donald Trump’s calls to keep the facility running.
